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Playmen
''Playmen'' was an Italian adult entertainment magazine. It was founded in 1967 by a mother of three, Adelina Tattilo, achieving fame as Italy's version of ''Playboy'' magazine. The magazine was published monthly and featured photographs of nude women, and articles on fashion, sport, consumer goods and public figures. ''Playmen's'' use of "tasteful" nude photos is classified as softcore in contrast to hardcore pornographic magazines. It ceased publication in 2001. Early years During a running battle with the Italian police, the magazine reached a circulation of 450,000 within four years of its 1967 inception. It sold at about the equivalent of a US dollar per copy. ''Playmen'' was initially an imitator of ''Playboy'' magazine, although the first ''Girl of the Month'', Brigitte Bardot, held her hands to cover her breasts. ''Playmen'' later developed a style of its own, reflecting European tastes and not overly displaying breasts as per the American ''Playboy'' counterpart. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelina Tattilo
Adelina Tattilo (13 November 1928 – 1 February 2007) was an Italian publisher. She is acknowledged to be a pioneer in the Italian erotic magazine publishing sector, who contributed to change the social customs Italy from the second half the 1960s. By launching ''Playmen'', Tattilo engaged publishers (like Americans Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt did) in an ideological battle to liberate sexual attitudes and free them from bigotry and false moralisms. Early life, family and education Adelina Tattilo was born in Manfredonia, Apulia. She was educated at schools managed by nuns in Ivrea, Turin. Career In the 1960s, Tattilo launched ''Menelik'', a weekly magazine of erotic comic strips, featuring the character Bernarda. This periodical came to sell up to 100,000 copies each week. In 1965 Tattilio and her husband Saro Balsamo broke into publishing with a weekly magazine, ''Big'', for teenage boys which answered questions of curiosity about sex. ''Big'' reached sales approaching 400,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Keaton
Camille Keaton (born July 20, 1947) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Jennifer Hills in the controversial 1978 film '' I Spit on Your Grave''. She began her career in Italy, making her film debut as Solange Beauregard in the giallo film '' What Have You Done to Solange?'' (1972), and starred in several other Italian horror films through the early 1970s. In 2015, Keaton reprised her role as Jennifer Hills for the film, '' I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu'', which was released in 2019. Early life Keaton was born July 20, 1947 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She attended middle school in Eudora, Arkansas until 1960 when her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. In 1969, she was involved in a major car accident that left her with facial scarring. . Keaton once worked as a hostess for Amtrak. Career Keaton relocated to Italy in 1971, where she had signed with a talent agent, and appeared in several commercials. Her debut role was in 1972 playing the role of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Magazines In Italy
In Italy there are many magazines. Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded. From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in number in the country. The number of consumer magazines was 975 in 1995 and 782 in 2004. There are also Catholic magazines and newspapers in the country. A total of fifty-eight Catholic magazines was launched between 1867 and 1922. From 1923 to 1943, the period of the Italian fascism, Fascist Regime, only ten new Catholic magazines was started. The period from 1943 to the end of the Second Vatican Council thirty-three new magazines were established. Until 2010 an additional eighty-six Catholic magazines were founded. The magazines had 3,400 million euros revenues in 2009, and 21.5% of these revenues were from advertising. The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Italy. They are published in Italian language, Italian or other languages. 0-9 * ''30 Days (magazine), 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paul Getty III
John Paul Getty III (; born Eugene Paul Getty II; November 4, 1956February 5, 2011) was the grandson of American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who was once the richest man in the world. While living in Rome in 1973, he was kidnapped by the 'Ndrangheta and held for a $17 million ransom. His grandfather was reluctant to pay, but, after John Paul Getty III's severed ear was received by a newspaper, the grandfather negotiated a payment of $2.2 million, and Getty was released five months after being kidnapped. Getty developed an addiction to drugs and alcohol soon after, eventually leading to an overdose and stroke which left him severely disabled for the rest of his life. Early life Getty was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spent most of his childhood in Rome while his father headed the Italian division of the Getty family oil business. His parents divorced in 1964 when he was eight years old, and his father married model and actress Talitha Pol in 1966. The couple adopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilli Carati
Lilli Carati (23 September 1956 – 21 October 2014) was an Italian actress. Biography Lilli Carati was born in Varese (Lombardy). In 1974, she was named "Miss Elegance" at a beauty contest in Calabria and began working as a fashion model in Milan. She was first runner-up at ''Miss Italia'' contest of 1975 and moved on to cinema. Most of her box office hits were in the genre of "sex comedy," but she also appeared in films of different genres such as '' Squadra antifurto'' (1977, a crime story with Tomas Milian), ''Le evase – Storie di sesso e di violenze'' (1978, a prototypical exploitation film), and '' La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia'' (1978, a film by Lina Wertmüller). She also appeared in nude photos on the pages of Italian men's magazines like ''Playmen ''and ''Albo Blitz''. Around 1990, she retired from public life. On 21 October 2014, she died of a brain tumour. Films Her first lead role was in 1976's ''La professoressa di sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Ann Savoy
Teresa Ann Savoy, FRSA (18 July 1955 – 9 January 2017) was a British actress who appeared in a number of Italian films. Biography Savoy was 18 years old when she appeared in the Italian adult magazine ''Playmen'' (October 1973), using an alias of "Terry". "Terry", who fled from home at 16, was living in a hippie community in Sicily and soon became an attention of the press. In 1974, her acting career began when film director Alberto Lattuada (who discovered Federico Fellini and Silvana Mangano) gave her first role in the film ''Le farò da padre'' aka ''La bambina'', playing an intellectually disabled girl named Clotilde. Her next film was ''Private Vices, Public Pleasures'' (''Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù'') (1975) directed by the Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. The film told the story of the Crown Prince Rudolf, son of the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph and his rebellion against his father. Teresa played the baroness Mary Vetsera, Rudolf's lover, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Villoresi
Maria Pamela Villoresi (born 1 January 1957) is an Italian theatre, cinema and television actress. She has performed in more than 100 theatrical productions and in more than 30 films. Life and career The daughter of a cloth merchant of Prato and of a German mother, Pamela Villoresi began her artistic career following the acting lessons at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato. In 1975 Giorgio Strehler called her to be part of the theater company he started, Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Simultaneously she achieved great success with the television drama ''Marco Visconti'' and started a continuous career in cinema, in which she frequently had leading roles. In 1975 she posed nude as cover girl for ''Playmen''. In 1978 she won a Grolla d'oro for her role in Marco Bellocchio's '' Il gabbiano''. From 1990 she occasionally was a stage director and a TV presenter. In 2010 she ran in the Lazio regional election, supporting the center-right candidate Renata Polverini. She was not elected. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things because individuals have different preferences, most forms of entertainment are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures and were supported in royal courts and developed into sophisticated forms, over time becoming available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry that records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men's Magazines
This is a list of magazines primarily marketed to men. The list has been split into subcategories according to the target audience of the magazines. This list includes mostly mainstream magazines as well as adult ones. Not included here are automobile, trains, modelbuilding periodicals and gadget magazines which happen to have a predominantly male audience. General male audience These publications appeal to a broad male audience. Some skew toward men's fashion, others to health. Most are marketed to a particular age and income demographic. In the US, some are marketed mainly to a specific ethnic group, such as African Americans or Mexicans. Americas Europe Asia Oceania Ethnic men's magazines African American men's magazines * ''Black Enterprise'' * ''King'' ( US) (defunct) * ''Smooth'' ( US) Latin American men's magazines * '' Hombre'' * '' Open Your Eyes'' (defunct) Gay male audience * '' The Advocate'' * ''Attitude'' * ''AXM'' (defunct) * '' Badi'' * ''Bear M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Refinery29
Refinery29 (R29) is an American multinational digital media and entertainment website focused on young women. It is owned by Vice Media. History Justin Stefano, Philippe von Borries, Piera Gelardi, and Christene Barberich co-founded Refinery29 in 2005 as a city guide, emphasizing fashion local to New York City. The name of the website alludes to the website distilling information into its essence. The company headquarters is located in the Financial District, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Refinery29 has over 450 employees globally with offices in Los Angeles, London, and Berlin. In 2015, the company launched a UK edition at www.refinery29.uk and the following year in 2016, a German edition at www.refinery29.de. In 2016, Refinery29 announced it had raised $45 million in funding led by Turner. As of 2017, Refinery29 reaches an audience of over 500 million globally. On October 2, 2019, Vice Media (owned by Shane Smith (20%), The Walt Disney Company (16%), A&E Networks ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
